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is that romney right now -- just a few weeks ago, starting in florida, you could feel it. those polls have all tightened up and here in ohio, that small lead president obama's had, this is a main street republican state but toledo area tonight where i am tonight, erin, this is home to the plant that the romney campaign has been running ads on. there's a real sense that he was in play, he had been spending a lot of time, but people here take the auto industry very personally and that ad that has been called dishonest by some folks has caused a lot of ill will to the romney campaign. i think it makes more sense to play in those states rather than trying to push in pennsylvania. >> thanks to all three. scrambled map makes for an exciting weekend. next, how big was the cia operation in libya and what does it have to do with what the obama administration has been telling the public about what happened there? and an update on the crane hanging over new york city. the plan to secure it, and how long it's going to take. [ all! that is crazy! are you kidding me? let me see! oh! wha
is that romney right now -- just a few weeks ago, starting in florida, you could feel it. those polls have all tightened up and here in ohio, that small lead president obama's had, this is a main street republican state but toledo area tonight where i am tonight, erin, this is home to the plant that the romney campaign has been running ads on. there's a real sense that he was in play, he had been spending a lot of time, but people here take the auto industry very personally and that ad that has...
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. >> he said he was going to lower the unemployment rate down to 5.2% right now. today, we learned that it's actually 7.9% and that's nine million jobs short of what he promised. unemployment is higher today than when barack obama took office. >> mitt romney earlier today. you're looking at live pictures now from westchester in ohio, where rudy giuliani, the former mayor of new york, has given a blistering speech attacking barack obama. in a few minutes, he will be on this show live and exclusive to tell me why he feels so strongly why the president should leave the office. let's start with these long lines for gas. susan candiotti is at one gas station in new jersey. i have been following your travails for most of the day. you have been joining endless lines for gas in your car. most of the time coming up against a blank. where are you now and how does it all end? >> reporter: well, it all ended with us not getting any gas. it looks like a ghost town here. you can see they were open for a good nine hours. they had the supply but those lines just sucked it all up.
. >> he said he was going to lower the unemployment rate down to 5.2% right now. today, we learned that it's actually 7.9% and that's nine million jobs short of what he promised. unemployment is higher today than when barack obama took office. >> mitt romney earlier today. you're looking at live pictures now from westchester in ohio, where rudy giuliani, the former mayor of new york, has given a blistering speech attacking barack obama. in a few minutes, he will be on this show live...
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number oner he is the most popular living ex-president right now and what does that include? swing voters and moderates and all of people upon whom the election may ride, and he is also extremely popular with the democratic base. clinton is kind of the good old days and that kind of remainind of him saying remember when i was president and things are great? well, that is the path that the president is on, and that is sort of the, he provides this backup for president obama as he nominates him. and it is clearly an emotional highlight for democrats who have always thought that president clinton was great. so he feels so many roles here reaching out to both the base and of course the swing voters. >> and we are looking forward to the interview on the show today with ann romney. she has helped to soften the image of her husband. >> yes, so did the republican national convention and i spoke to her shortly the day after he gave the nomination acceptance speech, and she was pretty clear that she felt that the convention did go a long way to kind of putting out what she calls their
number oner he is the most popular living ex-president right now and what does that include? swing voters and moderates and all of people upon whom the election may ride, and he is also extremely popular with the democratic base. clinton is kind of the good old days and that kind of remainind of him saying remember when i was president and things are great? well, that is the path that the president is on, and that is sort of the, he provides this backup for president obama as he nominates him....
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the latest poll showing it obama, 42, romney, 40. if you look at this poll among latinos, hispanics in the state of arizona, obama, 64. romney, 25. governor, i could show you national numbers like that as well. many people say the national immigration debate, and that exacerbated by arizona and laws like it are killing the republican parties politically. is that true? >> well, i think it's unfortunate that we see polls like that. you know, are the polls true? i would imagine that they're as true as polls can be. the obama administration, the democratic party, of course, has been playing to the democrats with scare tactics in regards to what the republicans are going to do and what they won't do. but let me remind everybody that he's been president now going on almost four years. he has a time for two years that he could have accomplished and he could have done anything that he wanted to do, with the house and the senate and him. and he didn't get it done. so you know, i think that the federal government, the democrats, and the presid
the latest poll showing it obama, 42, romney, 40. if you look at this poll among latinos, hispanics in the state of arizona, obama, 64. romney, 25. governor, i could show you national numbers like that as well. many people say the national immigration debate, and that exacerbated by arizona and laws like it are killing the republican parties politically. is that true? >> well, i think it's unfortunate that we see polls like that. you know, are the polls true? i would imagine that they're...
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rubio over obama. >> thanks for watching. you can continue the conversation with me on twitter at kyracnn or facebook. cnn continues now with suzanne malveaux. >>> newt gingrich gets ready to pull the plug on his presidential campaign. sources telling cnn gingrich will officially end his run for the white house next week, throw his support behind mitt romney. gingrich also expected to help republicans try to win back the senate, hold onto the house. here is what he said earlier today. >> we're going to stay very, very active. we're working out the details of our transition and we'll have information for the press in the next couple days, but i am committed to this party, i am committed to defeating obama. we will find ways to try to be helpful. i do think it's pretty clear that governor romney is going to be the nominee and we'll do everything we can to make sure that he is, in fact, effective. >> what do we want? jui justice. >> kf states enforce their own immigration laws. arizona wants to keep the nation's harshest immigra
rubio over obama. >> thanks for watching. you can continue the conversation with me on twitter at kyracnn or facebook. cnn continues now with suzanne malveaux. >>> newt gingrich gets ready to pull the plug on his presidential campaign. sources telling cnn gingrich will officially end his run for the white house next week, throw his support behind mitt romney. gingrich also expected to help republicans try to win back the senate, hold onto the house. here is what he said earlier...
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and mitt romney, president obama, all agree that right now we cannot allow these rates to tick up when these young people are struggling to find work in this economy. half of the young people that graduated last august are unemployed or underemployed. half of them still live with parents. that's unacceptable. >> higher tuition that's rising faster than the cost of anything else. you have borrowing more money because you're borrowing more money because you can't get out of the house. you don't have a job on the other end and you have the government involved in subsidizing loans. >> let me ask the congressman this. the free market has done an amazing job of lowering the prices of everything from cars to phones but as you point out there are these exceptions. the price of a college education has skyrocketed along with home prices and health care. there's a strong correlation to the government subsidizing those products. and then the products prices rise extraneously. you are here today arguing to us that we should subsidize the price of a college education and lament that the price is goi
and mitt romney, president obama, all agree that right now we cannot allow these rates to tick up when these young people are struggling to find work in this economy. half of the young people that graduated last august are unemployed or underemployed. half of them still live with parents. that's unacceptable. >> higher tuition that's rising faster than the cost of anything else. you have borrowing more money because you're borrowing more money because you can't get out of the house. you...
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all right? thank you very much, everybody. >> all right. president barack obama there on staten island. the second visit to the region after superstorm sandy reiter e reiterating that the federal government will be there in the complete rebuilding of this region devastated by that storm. there he is with the governor of new york and also homeland security chief janet napolitano and senators chuck schumer also there as well as the new york city mayor michael bloomberg. you heard the president there also talking about poignant moment with the moore family and many people recall their two sons swept away and he talked about what's been a very emotional visit to the staten island area, but also a kind of reaffirms that resolve that the federal government will be there as best it can in the rebuilding process. our victor blackwell is there, also, in staten island outside of recovery center. so victor, give me an idea what the reception has been like for the president's second now visit, the first post-re-election there to staten island. >> repor
all right? thank you very much, everybody. >> all right. president barack obama there on staten island. the second visit to the region after superstorm sandy reiter e reiterating that the federal government will be there in the complete rebuilding of this region devastated by that storm. there he is with the governor of new york and also homeland security chief janet napolitano and senators chuck schumer also there as well as the new york city mayor michael bloomberg. you heard the...
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>> well, for pbs, sure. >> right. well, he said he was a fan of big bird, but i think he used that as an example of a federally funded organization that he believes doesn't need that taxpayer money. it certainly does well with its own private funding drives. i mean, we're forever seeing pbs funding drives, let's face it. so governor romney was just simply illustrating a point that he would be willing to cut even popular things like big bird because he doesn't see that it's a federal responsibility. >> mitt romney now says that he was wrong about that 47% comment as well. listen to this. >> clearly in a campaign with hundreds if not thousands of speeches and question and answer sessions, now and then you're going to say something that doesn't come out right. in this case, i said something that's just completely wrong. >> president obama, surprising a lot of people by not even bringing that up in the debate. but amy, i'm going to go to you first on this one. does this end the conversation about the 47%? >> well, interes
>> well, for pbs, sure. >> right. well, he said he was a fan of big bird, but i think he used that as an example of a federally funded organization that he believes doesn't need that taxpayer money. it certainly does well with its own private funding drives. i mean, we're forever seeing pbs funding drives, let's face it. so governor romney was just simply illustrating a point that he would be willing to cut even popular things like big bird because he doesn't see that it's a federal...
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it is so good. >>> as you saw here earlier this hour president obama's in ohio right now. not only touting the new jobs report that came out today, but also accusing mitt romney of trying to scare people with a very controversial campaign ad. chief white house correspondent jessica yellin reports. >> reporter: in ohio the president saw the bright side of the new jobs numbers. >> this morning we learned that companies hired more workers in october than at any time in the last eight months. the american auto industry is back on top. >> reporter: notice that pivot? the president turned quickly from jobs numbers to the auto industry. >> we've been seeing this out of governor romney and his friends over the last few weeks. >> reporter: no mention of government job losses or an unemployment rate uptick to 7.9%, but lots of time on a fight over the auto bailout and an ad from the romney campaign. >> and you can't try to scare people. this is not a game. these are people's jobs. these are people's lives. >> reporter: he's talking about this. >> obama took gm into bankruptcy and so
it is so good. >>> as you saw here earlier this hour president obama's in ohio right now. not only touting the new jobs report that came out today, but also accusing mitt romney of trying to scare people with a very controversial campaign ad. chief white house correspondent jessica yellin reports. >> reporter: in ohio the president saw the bright side of the new jobs numbers. >> this morning we learned that companies hired more workers in october than at any time in the...
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president obama: there's just no quit in america... and you're seeing that right now. over five million new jobs. exports up forty one percent. home values... rising. our auto industry... back. and our heroes are coming home. we're not there yet, but we've made real progress and the... last thing we should do is turn back now. here's my plan for the next four years: making education and training a national priority; building on our manufacturing boom; boosting american-made energy; reducing the deficits responsibly by cutting where... we can, and asking the wealthy to pay a little more. and ending the war in afghanistan, so we can... do some nation-building here at home. that's the right path. so read my plan, compare it to governor romney's... and decide which is better for you. it's an honor to be your president... and i'm asking for your vote... so together, we can keep moving america forward. i'm barack obama and i approve this message. a . >>> good morning, everybody. you're watching starting point. the crucial employment report, the most employment report of the
president obama: there's just no quit in america... and you're seeing that right now. over five million new jobs. exports up forty one percent. home values... rising. our auto industry... back. and our heroes are coming home. we're not there yet, but we've made real progress and the... last thing we should do is turn back now. here's my plan for the next four years: making education and training a national priority; building on our manufacturing boom; boosting american-made energy; reducing the...
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fred. >> all right, ali velshi, thanks so much. the next jobs report coming just four days before november's vote. let's dig a little deeper into the numbers. rick newman is with me. he's the chief business correspondent at u.s. news and world report and the author of the book "rebounder." these numbers are funded by the analysts, but are americans comforted in any way by the new numbers? >> that's a great question. whether we should pay attention to the unemployment rate or not, we're certainly going to be hear aglot about it. it's almost all president obama has been talking about for the last day and a half. it's certainly going to be out there. what is interesting, fredricka, is americans have slowly been feeling better about the economy. i think what's been going on is a lot of small things have very slowly been getting better. and overall, this is adding up to voters who are more optimistic than economists think they should be in some cases. we have seen almost all of the consumer confidence surveys, for example, improve fairl
fred. >> all right, ali velshi, thanks so much. the next jobs report coming just four days before november's vote. let's dig a little deeper into the numbers. rick newman is with me. he's the chief business correspondent at u.s. news and world report and the author of the book "rebounder." these numbers are funded by the analysts, but are americans comforted in any way by the new numbers? >> that's a great question. whether we should pay attention to the unemployment rate...
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obama is the economic enemy. i first spoke to sergeant stein about his armed forces tea party page back in march, and at the time he was very vocal about his right to free speech. >> could the military kick you out for not following orders? >> they can kick me out for not following law full orders, yes, they could, but i have never refused to follow a lawful order. >> well, the sergeant has now been discharged. he has been kicked out, and he seems to have some regret about his actions. he told msnbc, quote, people ask me would you go back and change those words? i would, most definitely. i would articulate my point better. so let's go to the pentagon and chris lawrence. why exactly was sergeant stein discharged? >> basically, carol, it came down to this board and finally the general deciding that he just did not honorably serve. he did not uphold the honor of the united states marine corps. really a lot of it came down to the fact of this statement of not following an order. now, let's get down to t.honestly, i c
obama is the economic enemy. i first spoke to sergeant stein about his armed forces tea party page back in march, and at the time he was very vocal about his right to free speech. >> could the military kick you out for not following orders? >> they can kick me out for not following law full orders, yes, they could, but i have never refused to follow a lawful order. >> well, the sergeant has now been discharged. he has been kicked out, and he seems to have some regret about his...
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are you sure your researchers got that right? >> i'm going to double check that. >> of course it's a great medium. millions of young people watch this. that's exactly the kind of voters president obama was trying to reach. he was serious, but he was funny in the give and take. they had a thing going. the whole thing is hilarious. it gets students to talk about it. forget whether we are talking about it. it's not what the president cares about. his message got through to the students. >> time for the buzzer beater. 20 seconds each. salahi wants to run for governor of virginia. he crashed the white house party without an invitation and lost his wife to the drummer of journey. why should virginians vote for him for governor? chris? chris! >> they should not. look, if what they want to do is vote for a publicity hound on a horse then they can do that. this guy is a complete moron. he's running for governor of virginia? so, at least he won't be able to or have to crash the governor's party if he gets elected. not going to happen! >> d
are you sure your researchers got that right? >> i'm going to double check that. >> of course it's a great medium. millions of young people watch this. that's exactly the kind of voters president obama was trying to reach. he was serious, but he was funny in the give and take. they had a thing going. the whole thing is hilarious. it gets students to talk about it. forget whether we are talking about it. it's not what the president cares about. his message got through to the...
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cnn is in colombia right now investigating how the scandal went down. [ pilot ] flying teaches me to prepare for turbulence. the key is to have a good strategy. the same goes for my retirement. with the plan my financial advisor and i put together, a quick check and i know my retirement is on course. [ male announcer ] with wells fargo advisor's envision plan, you always know where you stand. in fact, 93 percent of envision plan holders say they will retire on their own terms. get started on...
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i have four obama's in the car. >> early start continues right now. >>> will it be the final factor? four days before america votes we're about to get the last pre-election numbers on jobs and our economy. >> please, i can't. i can't do it anymore. >> i know. >> i got nothing left. memories or anything else. >> survivors of hurricane sandy still waiting for help and worrying about the future. good morning, everyone. welcome to "early start" i'm john berman. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. it is 6:00 a.m. in the east and we begin with the last real economic barometer before tuesday's election. the labor department releases the october jobs report about 2 1/2 hours from now. jobs and the economy, of course, are primary issues out on the campaign trail. with president obama and mitt romney running so close, this morning's jobs report takes on even more significance. christine romans is previewing the report for us. and paul steinhauser is looking at the political impact. let's start this morning with christine. >> good morning, you guys. the last big economic hurdle before the election on
i have four obama's in the car. >> early start continues right now. >>> will it be the final factor? four days before america votes we're about to get the last pre-election numbers on jobs and our economy. >> please, i can't. i can't do it anymore. >> i know. >> i got nothing left. memories or anything else. >> survivors of hurricane sandy still waiting for help and worrying about the future. good morning, everyone. welcome to "early start" i'm...
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. >> yes, mitt romney can beat president obama. but that's not even the appropriate question right now. it's who has the best chance to beat president obama. and quite clearly mitt romney has the best chance to beat president obama over his competitors like gingrich and santorum and paul. >> dana, maria, will, thanks, guys. >> thanks, kyra. >>> well, as early as 35 hours, we could know who voters in florida want as their republican nominee to challenge president obama. retirees are significant voting block in that state. our brooke baldwin is there. who are they getting behind? >> reporter: you know, i spent my whole day in a retirement community on the golf course yesterday and i seemed to hear the names of two candidates. let me throw some numbers on you as in 72, not to rub it in, but it'll be a balmy 72 degrees in tampa, and that's the reason why show many in the 65 and older crowd decide to retire here to florida. 17% of the florida population is comprised of that 65 and older crowd, but that's much bigger when it comes to tho
. >> yes, mitt romney can beat president obama. but that's not even the appropriate question right now. it's who has the best chance to beat president obama. and quite clearly mitt romney has the best chance to beat president obama over his competitors like gingrich and santorum and paul. >> dana, maria, will, thanks, guys. >> thanks, kyra. >>> well, as early as 35 hours, we could know who voters in florida want as their republican nominee to challenge president...
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. >> that's right. >> all right, thanks alina. there are just 50 days until the u.s. faces that fiscal cliff. president obama has invited leaders from the house and the senate to the white house on friday to talk about some solutions. some of last year's dead ends still fresh in everybody's minds. the gang of eight, senate negotiators are going to meet sometime this week as well. republicans say maybe a deal isn't so far off listen. >> i think there is a deal. the yin and yang of this is we know there has to be revenues. and i think look i haven't met a wealthy republican or democrat in tennessee that's not willing to contribute more as long as they know we solved the problem. so the ying of revenue we understand. i thinkth a very good pro-growth way of putting that in place so you're actually getting revenues from people like me and other folks that make above "x" dollars. what you have to have tied to that is true entitlement reform. >> grover norquist is the president of americans for tax reform. he's also the author of debacle, obama's war on jobs and growth and w
. >> that's right. >> all right, thanks alina. there are just 50 days until the u.s. faces that fiscal cliff. president obama has invited leaders from the house and the senate to the white house on friday to talk about some solutions. some of last year's dead ends still fresh in everybody's minds. the gang of eight, senate negotiators are going to meet sometime this week as well. republicans say maybe a deal isn't so far off listen. >> i think there is a deal. the yin and yang...
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all right, jack, thank you. >>> a negative turn in the race for the white house with both the obama and romney campaigns unleashing a slew of accusations and attack ads. let's talk about this and more with our cnn chief political analyst, gloria borger. gloria, is the negative tone of these ads, the attacks, are they impacting voters' views of these two candidates? >> you bet, wolf. and it's not pretty. in fact, it's impacting them really negatively. take a look at this new result from the nbc "the wall street journal" poll. you look at the favorable and unfavorable ratings. i mean, mitt romney's unfavorables, wolf, are now five points higher than his favorables. he's completely under water there. and president obama is still more favorable than nonfavorable, but his rating has gone down. and these negatives for these candidates are as high as they have ever been. and that's of course because as you point out, we've had two straight months of each campaign through their super pacs or their campaigns spending over $25 million in advertising about each other, most of which is negative. th
all right, jack, thank you. >>> a negative turn in the race for the white house with both the obama and romney campaigns unleashing a slew of accusations and attack ads. let's talk about this and more with our cnn chief political analyst, gloria borger. gloria, is the negative tone of these ads, the attacks, are they impacting voters' views of these two candidates? >> you bet, wolf. and it's not pretty. in fact, it's impacting them really negatively. take a look at this new...